Effectiveness of interventions to prevent abuse in people living with dementia in community settings: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This review examined the evidence for interventions to prevent the abuse of people living with dementia in the community.

Methods

The articles were retrieved from 2000 to 2023 from six databases, including MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL Plus via EBSCO, EMBASE, ProQuest Medical Library, Web of Science, and Scopus. The research articles that focused on finding the effectiveness of interventions for preventing abuse of people living with dementia in community settings were included in this review. The review included randomized controlled trials and pre-test post-test trials only. The quality appraisal of the eligible studies was done using ROB 2 and ROBINS II. The findings were tabulated and narratively synthesised.

Results

Out of 1831 articles, only three were i

SUBMITTER: Peter A S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11491043 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature